From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:58:01 GMT
Subject: Re: any way to apply tag across all branches in repository?
Message-ID: <ZSs3H_GRUGTI_yYwSwXULjkMD8YR-hSkoePTFq0NfYvkbDV9N7CgMw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <4A130D45.1050207@nortel.com>

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Brandon Casey wrote:

> <snip>
> 
>> Starting to make sense?
> 
> Yep.  I still need whatever identifier I use to be associated with the
> head of each branch.
> 
> Based on the discussion (thanks for the explanations, by the way) I
> don't see any option other than looping through each branch and using
> tags with the branch name embedded in them to ensure uniqueness across
> the repository.

Based on this, and your other message, it sounds like you want to have a
tag named 'v1.2.3' which is treated differently for each branch.  Since
there is only a single tag namespace, this is not possible.  Tag names
must be unique.

You can also use slashes in tag names.  Perhaps you could have the illusion
of common version numbers by using tag names like $arch/$version?

-brandon